This is the download page for podcasts of Cat and Joe’s Southern Comfort, broadcast every Friday at 4-5pm on NSR Live

Expect a mix of folk, indie and whatever else we feel like, alongside regular(ish) features like Know Your Onion (where Cat has to decide which of four ridiculous news stories is made up by popular satirical news story The Onion), Movie Reviews, Alien Corner and new feature Audio Youtube, our “senseless” (hur hur) new quiz where we play the audio from a Youtube clip and you work out what it is. Inspired. Unprofessional, sometimes stupid and often insane, Cat and Joe’s Southern Comfort shouldn’t exist but, lucky for us, it does.

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Series 3

Episode One – So, after we make a triumphant return replete with fanfare and whimsy, I lose my memory stick with the show recording. This show shall never be heard again.

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Episode Two – I have a new memory stick! That means you get to hear this week’s show, packed with my idiocy, an animal themed Know Your Onion (guess who wins) and the first real installment of our new feature, Audio Youtube where we play a Youtube clip and you have to wrk out what it is based on noise alone. It’s fun, I promise. Also, someone falls off his chair just before we start, it’s funny.

Episode Five – Beginning with a beautiful song and beautiful final note by Cat, the show’s true form quickly reveals itself through the sound of sewage pipes in the background, and we continue in similar vein from there – apocalypse, mean impressions, a vaguely psychopathic new Facebook idea and breast repossessions all make appearances.

Episode Six – This was our final show of the year, and so took the form of a semi-Christmas episode – every other song is Christmas related but really that’s about it. Either way, it can’t be worse than the same show last year, we weren’t inebriated this time. Merry Christmas one and all!

Episode One – Unfortunately slightly truncated because of technical difficulties, we have rampant unprofessionalism (as per usual), discussion of rahs, plugging for other people’s club nights, unintentional widening of the North-South divide, and the inaugural (and, at the time, unnamed) Cat Le Sac vs. Skrebulus Pip. Enjoy!

Episode Two – Apologies for the strange skipping that happens periodically throughout this one, not quite sure about that. However, we have the return of Alien Corner and Movie Reviews, the official induction of “Cat’s Yummiest Thing” and some emails from people WE DON’T EVEN KNOW PERSONALLY (although one of them seemed not to like us very much). Enjoy!

Episode Three – Somewhat shambolic this week I’m afraid, Cat felt ill and I was just a bit crap. Nonetheless there’s talk of ducks, alien cloud formations, hidden aspects of Newcastle and a failed attempt by me to drum up interest in quoting Shakespeare. Boom!

Episode Four – In an effort to impress Steve Lamacq on the off chance he was listening, we tried to be more professional this week. It didn’t really work, but what matters is we tried. There’s talk of spoons as weapons, much undeserved hatred for Snoop Dogg in Cat Le Sac vs. Skrebulus Pip and an exclusive (read: not exclusive) clip of Christopher Walken ‘singing’ Poker Face.

Episode Five – Cat seems inordinately quiet for some of this, apologies for that, but it’s another wonderfully ramshackle show this week. We have a certain Joe Vann in the studio with us (well, until he got bored and went off for a pint anyway), MORE Alien Corner, some awesome crazy news, and not a German impression in sight.

Episode Six – Sorry about the crackliness, it’s not our fault I promise! Aside from that, we’ve got all the regular features (minus Movie Reviews), the return German accents, people enjoying the idea of leg glands, many a shout out and some classic Sisqo. Until next week folks!

Episode Seven – My god I’m lazy, this is almost a week late and I can only apologise. But never fear, we have a show filled to the brim with radio goodtimes. These include another week where Cat doesn’t actually mind my song she should hate, a complete lack of interest in us asking you what you want for Christmas and even some Movie Reviews. Enjoy!

Episode Eight – It’s all something of a mess this week. Cat couldn’t make it, we were half an hour early, the next person didn’t turn up so we did an hour extra and Joe Vann and Jamie Sanderson reinforced the North-South divide for quite a while. Ah well, it’s probably still funny…

Episode Nine – It’s the final show of 2009 for Cat and Joe and something of a Christmas bonanza. We’ve got Crazy News, Alien Corner and a special Christmas Movie Reviews segment. Expect music, wine and merriment – Merry Christmas everyone!

Tracklist:

1. Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
2. Andrew Bird – Oh No
3. The Darkness – Christmas Time
4. The Second Hand Marching Band – We Walk In The Room
5. Bob Dylan – Must Be Santa
6. The Research – Lonely Hearts Still Beat The Same
7. Andy Williams – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
8. Brooke Fraser – Albertine
9. Zooey Deschanel and Leon Radbone – Baby, It’s Cold Outside

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Episode Ten – Something about the streaming software went mental. No podcast. Oops.

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Episode Eleven – Starts 12 seconds in for some reason, sorry about that! This week we have a bonanza of wonderment – Know Your Onion returns, we talk about Hannibal Lector and a thousand funtimes were had. Woop!

Tracklist:

1. Feist – I Feel It All
2. Good Shoes – Then She Walks By
3. Fionn Regan – Be Good Or Be Gone
4. The Maccabees – Lego
5. Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
6. Vampire Weekend – White Sky
7. Bright Eyes – We Are Nowhere And It’s Now
8. The Subways – Move To Newlyn

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Episode Twelve – Cat was away this week, so the talented and tall voice of Mr. Joe Vann joined me once more. Unfortunately, we were both quite tired so if the show appears lacklustre, well, it was. Nonetheless, all the usual features return, there’s a lot of microphone-related talk and we get a bit obsessed with thesuperest.com (which is definitely awesome).

Episode Thirteen – This week was our first ever Movie Soundtrack Show, where every piece of music was from a film we liked (mostly). Alongside all the aural goodtimes we have the usual features and we beg people to email us (and no-one does. Again). We also have an impromptu Children of Bodom covers section. Oh, and ignore Chryl Cole at the start, it was nothing to do with us.

Tracklist:

1. Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son From Anchorman
2. The First Edition – Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) From The Big Lebowski
3. Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright – Set Fire To The Third Bar From Dear John
4. Echo & the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon From Donnie Darko
5. Will Smith – Wild Wild West Duh
6. Petula Clark – Downtown From Girl, Interrupted
7. Nirvana – Something In The Way From Jarhead
8. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken From P.S. I Love You
9. Radiohead – Exit Music (For A Film) From Romeo + Juliet

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Episode Fourteen – The opening salvo of horrifying music continues, this week with T-Spoon’s seminal work ‘Sex on the Beach’ – but fear not! We quickly remedy that with a bit of Gwen Stefani and get on our merry way with all the usual features, all accompanied by the sound of a faulty microphone gently crackling its way through the whole thing. Delightful.

Episode Fifteen – There’s no rubbish music at the start of this one, hoorah (but we still take time to mention it, because it is truly awful). With that ritual complete, we move onto all the usual gubbins but with the conspicuous absence of our Alien Corner – although Tom Cruise gets a mention instead. And aside from all that we treat you to a great big pile of delightful music. Lucky beggars!

Episode Sixteen – Refreshed after an Easter break yet somehow still quite poorly put together and badly-planned, Cat and I return for our penultimate show of the year. All the usual features make an appearance, so look out for mentions of evil clowns, Arnold Schwarzeneggar and more idiotic voices than you could shake a baton at.

Episode Seventeen – This was our last show of the year, and the day before our birthday (yes, Cat and I have the same birthday, what of it?), so this show is packed full of music we liked as well as brilliant attempts at doing good end-of-year editions of our features. Cat summarily destroys me in Know Your Onion, something I’m sure she won’t let me live down, and we talk some real balls. So essentially it’s like any other show. Bye!

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